(From Americans for Prosperity- Missouri)
Today Americans for Prosperity - Missouri called on the Congressional delegation to stand up to the new carbon regulations released by the EPA, which demands a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The regulations will be particularly burdensome in Missouri, where coal-fired plants produce over 80% the state's electricity.
A recent report from the US Chamber of Commerce found that the proposed rule could destroy over 27,000 jobs in the region and hundreds of thousands of jobs nationally, based on its assumptions on a similar proposal by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
AFP – Missouri State Director Patrick Werner released the following statement:
"President Obama’s EPA is placing ideological zealotry above the need for commonsense energy solutions and job creation. Strangling carbon based energy is “unlikely” to have any positive environmental impact according to the Obama Administration, but it will destroy jobs and raise the cost of cooling our homes. Bureaucrats in Washington either have no awareness or no concern for how their policies will hurt the American people. It’s time for our Missouri’s Congressional delegation to put partisan politics aside and stand up for Missourians against the EPA’s catastrophic new policies.
With the economy shrinking for the first time in three years last quarter, our focus should be on encouraging economic growth and job creation, not adding new red tape. Washington’s bureaucrats might be too far removed to understand how these policies hurt real Americans, but our elected Representatives should know better. We hope they will rise to the occasion and say no to the new rules.”
Americans for Prosperity is the mouthpiece for the Koch brothers. Please support them if you feel that multibillionaires need more tax breaks, less restrictions on ethical business practices, and more political power. In 2009, Koch Industries settled the largest civil penalty ever with the EPA for $1.7 million along with another $500 million in commitments to correct pollution violations in 7 states. In 2001, they had a $25 million settlement with the U.S. government after falsifying extraction records for oil, and a $20 million settlement in 2000 for falsifying documents relating to a major release of the carcinogen benzene. They spend millions on lobbyists to fight climate and energy legislation, and millions more on organizations denying climate change. They stand to gain vast amounts of money if they can destroy EPA restrictions, but at what cost?
ReplyDelete9:12 maybe we can power the wind generators with all of your BS. I have lived all of my life a few miles from the Asbury coal plant and the EPA is as dumb as you.
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